Multiple issues with apple products
I know the request is for a descriptive title but I wanted to reach out to the community to see if people in general are having more issues than usual with applie products. Below is a list of just SOME of the many issues I've had in the past few months. I own several macs, two are currently in use - iMac 27inch and new Mac Studio, iphone and ipad.
iPhone:
- Randomly muting ALL the time so I don't hear phone calls or text messages. This has been going on for over two years. I upgraded my phone thinking it would fix this problem. It didn't. I've missed so many important business calls because of this. I've spent hours trouble shooting including talking to apple with no resolution.
- I just called apple support to ask about another issue (with my studio) and the phone buttons wouldn't work so I couldn't pick the department i needed and apple hung up on me. I had to restart my phone to fix this. This took time which costs money.
- Siri keeps turning on when I'm using my headphones and trying to leave people voice messages or talking on the phone. I have turned Siri off EVERYWHERE but it still comes on and disconnects my calls/messages. Why on eart is Siri still coming on. I DON'T WANT SIRI ON MY PHONE.
- Apple music keeps playing randomly in the middle of when I'm trying to leave voice messages when I've got my headphones on. I've ended up deleting the app as it was doing this all the time. I hadn't been into music for months when it first did it.
- Spotify and Audio keep randomly playing when I haven't asked them to. I would delete those apps too but I need them.
- Now suddenly my iphone is not showing up in AirDrop on any of my devices. It's worked fine for years. Till now. I just tried to reach out to Apple and they hung up on me!
iMac 27in
- I've got this set up near my mac studio while I transfer information over to my studio. This was working fine... until today when I tried to do something on my iMac 27inch and I can't use it because the two mice I've tried to use on it are showing on my new mac studio so I literally can't do anything on my old mac. One is an apple corded mouse, USB and is plugged into the iMac. The other is a microsoft mouse, USB, cordless - plugged into the iMac 27inch. These devices have been working fine on my iMac 27inch for other three years. I DIDN'T ASK MY MACS TO DO THIS. WHY DOES APPLY PRESUME THINGS. WHY CAN'T THEY LET US CHOOSE OUR SETTINGS AND TURN THINGS ON IF WE WANT THEM ON? I have lost yet more income trying to sort this out. I'm giving up. I don't have time to sort this. I'm simply losing too much income on apple issues. I just hope I never have to use my iMac again.
Mac Studio
- When I first set it up it wouldn't allow me to swap the mouse around to right-handed. I was on the phone ti apple for AGES trying to sort it. In the end they said it can't be done and that it's Microsoft's problem. I brought a new mouse. One that was 100% compatible with the latest apple OS. I installed the new mouse and saw that the settings had been changed back to left handed. I didn't do that. I am 100% certain that I set it to right handed. WHY IS APPLE CHANGING SETTINGS AROUND AUTOMATICALLY WITHOUT MY PERMISSION?
- Mac Mail: I couldn't set up one of my email accounts as iMAP. Mac mail kept defaulting to POP3. I reached out for help with apple and they told me it must be because the provider doesn't support iMAP. I knew that it did. I figured out a way to trick mac mail into letting me set it to iMAP.
- Mac Mail: We now can't make advanced changes to mac mail accounts. Apple has completely shut us off from doing this.
I've lost over a hundred hours worth of income trying to sort out mac issues in the past 12 months alone.
Is anyone else experiencing this many issues?
Macs in general
iMac 27″, OS X 10.11